Ah, me! This commentaries brings back a memory of my distant youth at which time I attained my first employment as a trust officer in a prominent banking firm at NYC. On my first day at work I was handed the probate file on an old Russian emigre, the "Caviar King", who had recouped his fortunes after the Revolution in marrying, in succession, two American heiresses. The gentlemen's second wife, the widow of the president of one of NYC's largest banks who, herself, had done well in the marriage market, her first husband, who she haddivorced, having been the heir to one of America's Great Fortunes, had predeceased him, and, his will, drafted by a prestigious "white shoe" firm, called for the distribution of his estate, some $3,000,000. to his sister and her son, his nephew, residents of France. The probate of the estate had proceeded nicely when "Sweetie Pie" showed up at the court house door. Yes, the aged Caviar King had taken up a relationship with a woman who claimed that he had married her, and, thereby, she was entitled to one-half of his estate. Depositions, hearings, continuances, etc went on for three years, the only proof of the marriage being dubious witnesses and a note penned in the man's handwriting which read: "At last we are together Sweetie Pie". At long last, the matter settled; Sweetie Pie walked with a $50.000 pay off; the estate, however, incurred $250,000+ in legal fees and court costs, and with taxes owing, was reduced to a fraction of its original worth.